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The Perry's Victory 

MEMORI AL 

Put'iri'Bay Soiith Bass Island, Ohio 




OFFICIAL SOUVENIR 



PinLIiiHED BV 

The National Board of Memorial 
Commissioners 

PRICE TEN CENTS 



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The Perry's Victory Memorial 

THE Perry's \-ictory Mcnn)rial. at I'ut-in-Bay. S.aitli I^.ass Is- 
land, Ohio, was erected under the auspices ..f the Tnited 
States Government and the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania. 
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin. New York. Rhode Island, Kentucky 
and Massachusetts (the states being here mentioned in the order in 
which their Commissioners were appointed, except Massachusetts, 
which made no provision for Commissioners) in commemoraticn of 
the victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and his men ..ver 
the British fleet under Commodore Barclay in the l)altle of Lake 
Erie, commonly called Perry's \'ictory. fought an.l w^n September 
10, 1813; and in commemoration of the Northwestern Campaign of 
General William Henry Harrison in the War of 1S12 and of the\un- 
dred years of peace ensuing between Great Britain and the United 
States. In connection with the construction of the Memorial, Xation.il 
and State legislation provided for a Centennial Celebration of the 
Battle of Lake Erie, which was duly observed under the direction of 
the Tnter-State Board of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commission- 
ers, September 9-10-11, 1913. These joint enterprises orij^Hnated in 
legislation by the State of Ohio, the first Commissioners being ap- 
pointed l)y that state in 1909. 

The Memorial, plaza and approaches are constructed in their 
entirety of pink Milford granite from the quarries at Milford, Massa- 
chusetts. Its geological composition is particularly adapted to the 
objects of a monument destined to endure through the ages. The 
color effect is pure white. The foundations of the column and the 
plaza rest directly on rock. The Memorial stands on the isthmus of 
South Bass Island, overlooking the waters of Lake I':rie and the 
scene of Perry's Victory off West Sister Island. The great Doric 
column rises 352 feet above the Lake level. It is the highest monu- 
ment in the world, excepting the Washington Monument; the great- 
est battle monument in the world and the most massive column ever 
attempted by ancients or moderns. 




APPROACHING THE MEMORIAL FROM EAST PdIXT 

The column is forty-five feet in diameter at the base and thirty- 
five feet and six inches at the neck; thickness of the walls at the base, 
nine feet and nine inches, and at the neck five feet. l"he diameter of 
the clear space in the interior of the column is twenty-six feet, six 
inches. There are seventy-eight courses of stone in the height of the 
column. Two flights of granite stairs built in the thickness of the 
walls afford communication l)etween the four entrance vestibules ad- 
jacent to the rotunda and the elevator floor above it. At this level 
the elevator and staircase start and run to the top of the column. 
The elevator, protected by all modern safety devices, ascends in one 
minute. The stairway to the top is composed of 467 steps. From 
the upper platform a door leads to the outside parapet or spectator's 
gallery, capable of accommodating two hundred people in the open air. 
The entire column is lighted electrically. 

From the parapet, 329 feet above Lake Erie, is disclosed a scene 
or unrivaled beauty. Surmounting the spectator's gallery is an im- 
posing great bronze tripod, holding the beacon light of the Memorial, 
which is a glow upward. The tripod is of solid bronze, twenty-three 
feet in height, its greatest diameter twenty feet; weight, eleven tons; 
cost, $14,000. It w^as designed by the architects of the Memorial and 
cast by the Gorham Company, of New York. It supports a massive 
bowl for illumination purposes, the top of which is of ground plate 
glass one half inch thick, having two hundred incandescent lamps 
beneath it. 

The main approach to the Memorial is from Put-in-Bay Harbor. 
The granite steps ascending to the plaza are sixty-seven feet wide. 




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Entrance to the rotunda of the 

Memorial is i^aincd tlirou,^:li fniir 

bronze doors marking- tlic diameter-- 

of the column and facinj^ the cardinal 

points of the compass. The rotunda 

is faced with Indiana Hniestone, and 

the floor of Tennessee marble, with 

a centerpiece and border in color. 

Beneath it, at a spot ap])roi)riately 

marked, re])ose the remains of the 

three Americans and three British 

officers killed in the Battle <.l Lake 

Erie, Axhicli fi>r a lunidred years lay 

buried nn the shores of Put-in-Bay, 

where they were interred after tlie 

battle. They were disinterred by 

the Commissioners of the Memorial 

and placed in the Memorial with im- 
pressive services Sej^tember 13, 1U13. 

one hundred years from the date of 

their original l)nrial on the shore. 

The seamen killed in the Battle of Bake I'rie were buried at sea. The 

officers killed, whose remains now re-^t within the Memorial, were 
(Americans) Lieutenant John Brooks of the bri^- "Lawrence": Mid- 
shipman Ilenrv Laul), of the "Lawrence." and Midshipman John 
Clark, of the -chooner "Scorpion"; and (I5ritish) Captain Robert 
Finnis. of the l)ri.i,^ "Queen Charlotte"; Lieutenant James Garden, of 

the Boval New Foundland Kefjiment. an.d Lieutenant John Ci.arland. 
of the ship "Detroit." Amund the walls <if the rotunda are carved 
stone tablets iji\-ins4- the names of the American shi])s, and the killed 
on board, engaged in the Battle o{ Lake Erie. 

Around the walls of the elevator floor abcne. on bronze tablets, 
are names of all per.son> en,<i;aoed in the battle and who received 
prize monev from the go\ernment in connection with it — 507 names 
in all. The ceiling of the rotunda takes the form of a dome. .\t tlie 
main entrance are bronze tablets containins^ the names ot the bed- 
eral Covernmcnt. the States and their Commissioners participating 
in the erection of the Memorial. The IMcniorial is surrounded by a 
reservation of fourteen acres, live hundred feet in width between the 
waters of But-in-Bay Harbor and those of Lake lu'ie. Operations 
to clear the site, originally an unbroken forest, were begun in June, 
1912; ground broken for the construction of the Doric column. Oc- 
tober 1st. li)12: cornerstone laid. July 4th. BB.'L the Memorial 
opened to the public, June 13. 1!)!;'). 

Licluding all items of incidental and necessary expense, the cost 
of the Memorial was approximately $700,000. For actual construc- 

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SECTION OP ROTUNDA 
SlunviHK Ono of the Pour Bronze Entrance Doors and Historical Tablets. 



tion purposes the Federal Commissioners segregated from the 
United States funds, $240,000 ; the Ohio Commissioners, $126,000, and 
$20,000 additional for the improvement of the grounds; Pennsyl- 
vania, $50,000; Michigan, $25,000; Illinois, $30,000; Wisconsin, 
$25,000; New York, $30,000; Rhode Island, $25,000; Kentucky, 
$25,000; and Massachusetts, $15,000. Total, $611,000. These figures. 




ASCENDING TO THE ELEVATOR FLOOR 

however, do not include tlie necessary cost of the purcliase of the 
Memorial site, of the architectural competition, superintendence of 
construction, fees for engineers, electrical conduits, retaining walls, 
and the organization necessary to jiromote and carry on the work 
over a period of years. 

The architect and designer of the Memorial was Joseph H. 
Freedlander, of New York, with whom was associated A. Duncan 




ELEVATOR ROTUNDA 
Showing tine of the Pour Bronze Memorial Talilets 

Seyniiiur, (if New ^ork. Tlu' sncccssful (k'>iij;n was (k-lcrniinod in 
the largest architertural t-dmpetitii m cxer held in this eonntrN' or 
Euroi)e. 1die conijictit i\ e designs were exhihited in the Xational 
Mnscinn, AA'ashini^ton, and the jnd.^es of awards were the members 
of the National Fine Arts C'omnii'-siMii. consisting- of i)a\id II. I')nrn- 
ham, architect, Thomas Hastings, architect, Cass (iilhert, architect, 
Daniel C. French, scnlptor, iM-ank I). Millet. ])ainter, Frederick Faw 
Olmstead, architect, and Charles Moore, art connoisseur. 

The Building Committee of the Memori;d. authorized hy the 
Jnter-State I'oard of Commissioners, consisted of Fresident-Ceneral 
George II. Wdrthington, chairman: First \'ice-President-Cieneral 
Flenry W'atterson ; Ihiited States Commissi, .ner Nelson A. Miles; 
with Secretary-Ceneral W'ehster 1*. Huntington as secretary. The 
Doric column was constructed hy J. C. l\ol)inson »!<: Son. of New- 
York and Chicago, and the jilaza and a|)])roaches hy the Stewart Fn- 
gincering Corjxiration, of New ^'ork. both under the sui)ervision of 
Superintendent of Construction C. K. Sudler. The Custodian of the 
Memorial is S. M. Johannsen, of the Ohio Commission, residing at 
Put-in-Bay. 

Idle Comniissioners appointed hy the President of the F'nited 
States and the (iovernors of the States ])articipating in the erection 
of the Memorial organized the Inter-State Board of the Perry's 



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THE CHECKKKBOARD OP ISLAND CULTIVATION 
View From the Spectators' Gallery. 

Victory Centennial Commissioners at a meeting held at Pnt-m-Bay, 
September 10th, 1910. This organization has since continued and is 
now known, by act of Congress, as the Perry's \'ictory Memorial 
Commission. At the period of the Centennial Celebration in 1913 
it was composed of the following Commissioners: 

General Officers: President-General, George H. Worthington, 
Cleveland, Ohio; First Vice-President-General, Henry Watterson, 
Louisville, Kentucky; Secretary-General, Webster P. Huntington, 
Columbus, Ohio; Treasurer-General, A. E. Sisson, Erie, Pennsyl- 
vania; Auditor-General, Colonel Harry Cutler, Providence, Rhode 
Island- Financial Secretary, Mackenzie R. Todd, Frankfort, Ken- 
tucky.' IWiP'lll 

Commissioners: For the United States Government, Lieuten- 
ant General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., Ret., Washington, D. C. ; 
Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis, U. S. N. Ret., Washington, D. C. ; 
Major General J. Warren Keifer, Springfield, Ohio. 

Ohio: John H. Clarke, George H. Worthington, Cleveland; 
Webster P. Huntington, Columbus; S. M. Johannsen, Put-in-Bay; 
Eli Winkler, Nicholas Longworth, Cincinnati; Horace Holbrook, 
Warren ; William C. Mooney, Woodsfield ; Horace L. Chapman, Co- 
lumbus ; George W. Dun, Toledo. 

Pennsylvania: A. E. Sisson, Milton W. Shreve, Erie; Edwin 
H. Vare, Philadelphia; T. C. Jones, McKeesport ; George W. Nefi, 
M. D., Masontown. 



.Michigan: (Icori^c W. Parker, John C. Lods^^e, Detroit; Arthur 
P. Looniis. Lansing-; Roy S. Barnhart, (irand Rapids; E. K. Warren, 

Three Oaks. 

Illinois: William H. Thompson. James Pugh. Kichard S. Fol- 
som, Nelson W. Lampert, Adam Weckler, Chesley K. Perry, William 
Porter Adams. Willis J. W'ells. Chicago; General Philip C. Hayes, 
Joliet; W . H. Mcintosh, Roekford ; J I. S. Bekemeyer, Si)ringheld. 




I.OOKTXr: TTP\V\in) TlIUolMiU CLKAK SI'ACK of coll JIN 
Showing Ouncii'tL' Stairway Around Elevator. 

Wisconsin: Rear Admiral Frederick M. Symonds, U. S. ISl. 
Ret.. C.alesville; John M. Whitehead. Janesville; A. W. Sanborn. 
Ashland; Louis Pohmrich. Milwaukee; C. B. Perry. Wauwatosa ; 
S. W. l\andol])h, Manitowoc; Sol P. Pluntington, Green Bay. (Jos- 
e])h McPell. .Secretary, Milwaukee.) 

New ^"ork : William J. C«jnners, George D. Emerson, William 
Simim, Jchii F. Malone. l^dward 1). Jackson. Buffalo; Simon L. 
.\dler, Rnchester; ALartin II. Glynn, Albany; Clinton B. TIerrick, 



M. D., Troy; William F. Rafferty, Syracuse; William L. Ormrod, 
Churchville; Jacob Schifferdecker, Brooklyn. 

Rhode Island : John P. Sanborn, Newport ; Louis N. Arnold, 
Westerly; Sumner Mowry, Peace Dale; Henry E. Davis, Woon- 
socket ; Colonel Harry Cutler, Providence. 




BRONZE TRIPOD SURMOUNTING THE COLUMN 

Kentucky : Henry Watterson, Colonel Andrew Cowan, Louis- 
ville ; Samuel M. Wilson, Lexington; Cok)nel R. W. Nelson, New- 
port ; Mackenzie R. Todd, Frankfort. 

The General Officers of the Inter-State Board have been annu- 
ally re-elected since 1910. 

The Memorial and Reservation are the property of the United 
States Government, and the Reservation a national park, both under 
the direction and control of the Perry's Victory Memorial Commis- \\ 
sion, created by Act of Congress approved by President AVHlson 



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MASONIC KXKKCISKS AT TIIK LAYlXd OF TIIK CORNER SToNK OF THF MKMdRTAL. 

,lu!y 4, 1913. 

Alanli :>(!, 1!)1I». 'Hie i)r(>pcrly contained in the Reservation was 
orii^inallv ])nrcliasc(l from prixale owners, for the ol)jects to which 
it has been (U'(Ucate(K hy condemnation i)roccedin,L;s l)roui;ht in the 
name of the State of ( )hio, and the title vested in that State. By act 
of the (ieneral Asseml)ly of ( )hio the i)roperty was ceded to the 
I'nited Slates, and the title was accepted on the part of the I'nited 
States ])\ the Act of C'oiii^ress referred to. 

The \ iew from the top of the Memorial is never for^dtten by 
those who ha\e liad the ])ri\i]e^e of ascending-. I'>y day the ])icture 
L^n-ows u])(»n the senses with charming? allurement, while ni.^^ht reveals 
a fair\land of starlit skies, shadowy forms and shimmering- reflections. 

I'rom an artdiitectnral stand])oint the Memorial is one of the 
j:^reat work'- of the a^es. ha|)])il\' destined to endure as lon^- as any 
rcarc-cl l)y human hands. .Scientilically. it has been the subject of 
nnbMimdcd admiration on the ])art of experts of both hemispheres. 
Tlie ]inb]ic has not been --low 1o realize the educational value of a 
\ i^it to rut-in-P>ay and the Memorial. The Island is readily accessi- 
ble bv dailv ])oats from .^an<lusky, Toledo, Cdeveland and Detroit. 
The thront^s of \isitors to the .Memorial therefore naturally include 
many or^-ani/.ations and societies. S])ecial rates for transportation 
and hotel acc-ommoclation-^ may always l)e obtained. 



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